October 20, 2014 – Southampton, Bermuda - An elite foursome of golfers battled it out Oct. 14-15, at Bermuda’s Port Royal Golf Course in the 32nd PGA Grand Slam of Golf. Bubba Watson, Martin Kaymer, Jim Furyk and Rory McIlroy competed in the 36-hole annual showdown that matches professional golf’s best against each other for a $1.35 million purse. Through the PGA’s partnership with TNT, the PGA Grand Slam of Golf was seen in more than 100 countries through various international distribution agreements.

Bexel was on hand for the 8th consecutive year to provide engineering support, remote production facilities, and fiber for the exclusive tournament. They designed and installed the event’s broadcast facility, including their customizable Hercules Flypack, to help meet the competition’s complex production requirements dictated by the remote Southampton, Bermuda, location.

“We always look forward to this event, as it’s a unique challenge in terms of logistics,” says Lee B. Estroff, vice president of Account Development for Bexel. “Because of the roads and infrastructure within Bermuda, there is no way to accommodate a mobile unit for the tournament. So we actually go into a very small, compact maintenance shed on the golf course, which is usually used to house tractors and lawnmowers, and we build a world-class, highly technical, 10 camera flypack system.”

The Hercules Flypack customized for the tournament includes 10 Sony HDC-2500 cameras and a multiple EVS XT3 server network.

“We are able to give them all the features of a mobile unit compacted into this small, tight space. Our Hercules Flypack is a fully scaleable, totally customizable system that can be outfitted for an event anywhere in the world, regardless of the space or other limitations we face. Even when they clean out a maintenance shed for us, Bexel can come in and build a state-of-the-art production facility.”

Bexel had a crew of nine engineers on site at the 32nd PGA Grand Slam of Golf, including two fiber engineers charged with handling the extensive fiber optic specifications for the event. To provide complete course connectivity, the infrastructure included 15,000 feet of tactical fiber cable for RF camera antennas, 32,000 feet of tactical fiber cable for Telecast HDX camera SMPTE eliminators, and 47,000 feet of SMPTE fiber camera cable.[sc name="news-footer"]